“I’m not gonna be there,” Pollard said. “I gotta sit this one out, man. I actually have a vacation with my family and then I’m coming back to get [my ring]. If I didn’t have a vacation, I wouldn’t come in anyway.”

“It’s not my teammates,” Pollard said. “It’s not my teammates at all. I would celebrate with them any time, any day of the week I would celebrate with them. But at the end of the day, I know what happened, I know what took place. . . . I’m sorry, I just don’t want to be in the room with certain people.”

“I’m just a player where you ask me my opinion, I’m gonna tell you,” Pollard said. “And for you to get upset or whatever afterwards, you know, you asked me. That’s that. . . . We were just asked our opinion about something. And we let the coach know our opinion. . . . It was us as players. . . . We were asked, the floor was open. And we responded, and let the coaches know how we felt, and that’s how it has to be as a football team. We can’t walk around on eggshells as a football team.”